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Study shows that hold of caste and social standing persists despite affirmative actions like reservations. Cities offer better occupational mobility than villages -Shalinee Mishra

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Study shows that hold of caste and social standing persists despite affirmative actions like reservations. Cities offer better occupational mobility than villages

ARE YOU likely to be poor and socially backward if your grandfather was too?  A latest paper finds that educational levels have increased in India over three generations but people are still holding same occupations. So, there is clear evidence of “grandfather effect”.

This multigenerational mobility differs in social groups. For instance, for Muslims mobility in education and occupation has decreased in comparison to that of Hindus while SC/ST and OBCs have become more mobile over generations in education (compared to General Castes), but not as much in occupational mobility.

This puts a question mark on how well the affirmative action policies like caste-based reservations are working. One of the most evident instance that comes to mind is job of sanitation workers. They tend to belong to same communities despite their better education levels than two generations earlier.

The paper, ‘Multigenerational Mobility in India’, by Anustup Kundu and Kunal Sen published by United Nations University used 25,000 datasets of grandfather-father-son traits  (data on daughters was not available) of all age sets from 1913- 2012. This timeline has major economic reforms and affirmative action plan on SC, STs, OBCs.

The multi-generation mobility is an easy way to measure the inequality in opportunity in a country. In societies where there is a dynastic transmission of wealth and social standing, inter-generational persistence of economic and social status is likely to suppress the social progress.

In developing countries, impact of parents’ caste, social group, race, education, occupation and ethnicity on child’s status is higher compared to developed countries.

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